End of Diet Week one. Still strong!

3-22-12

I wake up at 6:55 to get the kid on the bus. It was the wife’s turn at it, but cause of last night’s fiasco, I end up volunteering for the gig. I get him on the bus and then pass back out till 11:55 when its time to get him off the bus. I weigh in after the 4 days I’ve started this diet and to my surprise I am down 7 pounds! I’m sure its mostly water burning from my system, but nonetheless I am proud of my accomplishment. I’ve stayed strong! The wife gets up too and we opt to go to Subway for lunch. I get a cold cut plain. Then we decide its too nice a day to sit at home so we go to Potter’s Park Zoo. We walk for about an hour and a half (nice exercise!) and feed the goats. Most of the animals are sleeping and its so hot out that after we cycle through, we are pretty much exhausted. We get home and I decide its still too nice a day yet, so we go swimming in our apartment’s pool. I exercise some strokes for about 20 minutes and then spend 15 more in the hot tub. NICE! We get out and head back to dry off. The wife takes off to take care of some business. I sip some diet green tea and check email and internet news while eating a bowl of peaches. I call on my Heroes Con reservation and find out tables are sold out and I am on a waiting list. I call Dean and JJ to break the bad news, but determine that even if I don’t have a table, I’m still going as a fan. Dean wants to come over for the night for drinks, which I get excited about. Then I curl up on the couch to read some more of my Kevin Smith digital book. The wife comes home and I nap for about a half hour.

I am awoke by a Fed Ex guy knocking at our door, where he drops off my blank Walking Dead sketch cards for cryptozoic. I’m tired but I get up anyway and pencil/ink two cards to celebrate. The wife goes out with the kid to look at possibly getting a newer Jeep with her Walgreens Discount and comes back with good news about her credit getting better. I make spaghetti for the wife and I and we enjoy that. Makes us owning a house sometime in the next three years a better possibility. The kid passes out around 9pm and Dean & Mjit show up. We drink and I do a shot of Tequila for the first time. We are taught how to play “Munchkin,” an offshoot D&D/MAGIC type of card game which is confusing at first but deadly fun once you get it. I was worried the wife wouldn’t be into it, but she ended up liking it quite a bit! I might have to get the game for myself. The wife passes out at midnight and the rest of us stay up and watch the new Muppet movie. Its quite good. Its over and Dean & Mjit leave and I pass out around 2am.

3-23-12

I wake up at 9am realizing there is no one in the house. I get up to check that bots went to school and the wife went to work and check my phone for any messages. I had a dream somewhere that the wife told me that bots was sick and wasn’t going to school. But apparently it WAS a dream cause no one was there! I went back to bed until 11:40 when I finally emerged a well rested man. I go out and meet the school bus around 12:15 and get bots inside. I grab a bowl of cereal and sparkling flavored water for lunch. Then I catch up on emails, FB, Twitter and start penciling/inking more Walking Dead cards. The bots is being EXTREMELY moody, and so me getting work done is slow going. The wife calls and says our front tire keeps losing air and the spout is broken in half. Will take $58 dollars to fix it. Great. She gets home around 5:20 and I leave to go to work for the night shift. I work 7pm-4am and I deal with a lot of scary drunk guys. A couple really creep me out and I think I am being held up at one point. But it turned out to just be another drunk arsehole. I Work till four and leave the building. I am accosted outside by a drunk asshole in a truck as to why we are closed and for a half second, think I am going to get shot. I quickly hurry into my car get home (FAST) and crash dead tired and a tad stressed.

3-24-12

I get up at 11am and we take the car into Belle Tire on Saginaw Rd to get the car repaired. We walk from there to the nearby Culvers for food. Dean starts texting me asking if I want to meet up and draw at the coffee shop. Turns out the coffee shop he’s at is RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET! So we run over and sit with him while our car is getting fixed. Finally, the wife goes and gets it and I run to drop her and the bots off at home. I dust off my old college gig bag and toss some art stuff in it and head back to Bigby Coffee to draw with Dean some more. I get a few more Walking Dead cards done before leaving around 3:40 to go home for a nap before work. I lay on bots’ bedroom floor and take a nap there undisturbed (he’s never in there because the TVs are in the Living room and our Bedroom) till about 6:30. I leave then for work. I work an uneventful 7-4am shift. It is “Amateur Wet Jock Night” and lots of girls in there tonight instead of creepy guys. I drop off my co-worker Mike and get home around 4:30 and pass out 5 minutes later.